A question posed by Sir Walter Raleigh about cannonballs inadvertently led to a puzzle that mathematicians have been trying ...

AI math tools are solving problems that stumped humans for decades. A Northeastern mathematician explains why people still ...

OpenAI released proposed solutions to hundreds of math problems. Knowledge-intense companies need to understand if competitors are out-spending them on AI.

The results of a mathematical analysis of the standard assumptions used in PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) calculations. This Memorandum attempts to indicate the magnitude and direction ...

OpenAI says it solved more than 370 math problems. Mathematicians say there could be breakthroughs in the bunch, if verified — but that’s no easy task with unpolished work.

A scribe in Roman Egypt needs the area of a field. He picks up his reed pen and sketches a triangle on papyrus. Then he writes numbers along the sides. A new study shows this habit was common, and the ...

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

AI has made many impressive mathematical discoveries in recent months, but this may be the most aesthetically pleasing: a lace-like Venn diagram with tens of thousands of segments and rotational ...